Superframe
Superframe / Superblock: one adaptable mixed-use housing and urban framework.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
02 / I. ENVISION
Envision: Housing Begins Beyond the Site.
The vision begins with the relationship between housing demand, material resources and production. Its regional mapping considers forests, transport infrastructure, cities and timber-processing facilities as parts of a connected construction landscape. Superframe proposes a transition towards timber-based prefabrication, with a hybrid concrete-and-timber approach where the building system requires it.
The architectural ambition is inseparable from the organisation of production: repeated components can support a coordinated housing programme without prescribing one identical building. The map records the research context of the original study, not a current resource assessment or a measured environmental outcome.
02 / I. ENVISION
Envision: Housing Begins Beyond the Site.
The vision begins with the relationship between housing demand, material resources and production. Its regional mapping considers forests, transport infrastructure, cities and timber-processing facilities as parts of a connected construction landscape. Superframe proposes a transition towards timber-based prefabrication, with a hybrid concrete-and-timber approach where the building system requires it.
The architectural ambition is inseparable from the organisation of production: repeated components can support a coordinated housing programme without prescribing one identical building. The map records the research context of the original study, not a current resource assessment or a measured environmental outcome.
02 / I. ENVISION
Envision: Housing Begins Beyond the Site.
The vision begins with the relationship between housing demand, material resources and production. Its regional mapping considers forests, transport infrastructure, cities and timber-processing facilities as parts of a connected construction landscape. Superframe proposes a transition towards timber-based prefabrication, with a hybrid concrete-and-timber approach where the building system requires it.
The architectural ambition is inseparable from the organisation of production: repeated components can support a coordinated housing programme without prescribing one identical building. The map records the research context of the original study, not a current resource assessment or a measured environmental outcome.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
26 / III. ADAPT
Climate as a Design Variable.
The adaptable system is connected with environmental design. Building orientation and variations in height are intended to improve access to sunlight and reduce self-shading of courtyards. Façade choices can respond to colder conditions through the balance of window and wall, or to exposure through material selection.
The proposal also considers shared building-service systems rather than treating heating, ventilation and cooling only as individual apartment decisions. These are coordinated design intentions, not verified energy savings. The diagram returns the building to the wider material-and-energy system with which the presentation began.
26 / III. ADAPT
Climate as a Design Variable.
The adaptable system is connected with environmental design. Building orientation and variations in height are intended to improve access to sunlight and reduce self-shading of courtyards. Façade choices can respond to colder conditions through the balance of window and wall, or to exposure through material selection.
The proposal also considers shared building-service systems rather than treating heating, ventilation and cooling only as individual apartment decisions. These are coordinated design intentions, not verified energy savings. The diagram returns the building to the wider material-and-energy system with which the presentation began.
26 / III. ADAPT
Climate as a Design Variable.
The adaptable system is connected with environmental design. Building orientation and variations in height are intended to improve access to sunlight and reduce self-shading of courtyards. Façade choices can respond to colder conditions through the balance of window and wall, or to exposure through material selection.
The proposal also considers shared building-service systems rather than treating heating, ventilation and cooling only as individual apartment decisions. These are coordinated design intentions, not verified energy savings. The diagram returns the building to the wider material-and-energy system with which the presentation began.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
23 / III. ADAPT
Commutable Façades: Individual Choice, Common Connection.
The proposal uses prefabricated façade modules measuring 3.2 × 3.2 metres, set within a clad structural frame and using a unified connection system. Residents or developers can select among the modules according to architectural expression, budget and intended performance.
The common interface is what allows diversity to remain coherent. Rather than making every unit look the same, the catalogue places different choices within one legible mass. The diagram explains the assembly logic; the following catalogues show how that logic can support many compositions at the scale of a street.
23 / III. ADAPT
Commutable Façades: Individual Choice, Common Connection.
The proposal uses prefabricated façade modules measuring 3.2 × 3.2 metres, set within a clad structural frame and using a unified connection system. Residents or developers can select among the modules according to architectural expression, budget and intended performance.
The common interface is what allows diversity to remain coherent. Rather than making every unit look the same, the catalogue places different choices within one legible mass. The diagram explains the assembly logic; the following catalogues show how that logic can support many compositions at the scale of a street.
23 / III. ADAPT
Commutable Façades: Individual Choice, Common Connection.
The proposal uses prefabricated façade modules measuring 3.2 × 3.2 metres, set within a clad structural frame and using a unified connection system. Residents or developers can select among the modules according to architectural expression, budget and intended performance.
The common interface is what allows diversity to remain coherent. Rather than making every unit look the same, the catalogue places different choices within one legible mass. The diagram explains the assembly logic; the following catalogues show how that logic can support many compositions at the scale of a street.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
10 / II. DESIGN
Three Typologies, One Construction Logic.
Central access, gallery access and the tower offer three ways to organise the same housing framework. Each establishes a different relationship between circulation, apartment frontage and urban form. Their combination allows the neighbourhood to change height, density and spatial character without abandoning a common architectural language.
Each domestic plan belongs to an access system; each access system belongs to a street and courtyard. Diversity is designed across these scales, rather than added as a decorative variation at the end.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
01 / I. ENVISION
Superframe. One System, Many Ways to Live.
Superframe brings the architectural housing system and its Superblock urban framework into one mixed-use proposal. Developed for the 2017 Russian housing competition, the study connects residential buildings, active commercial ground floors, shared facilities and a walkable public realm. The question is not simply how to repeat a building, but how a repeatable system can make a diverse neighbourhood.
Material resources and individual identity inform the responsive urban block, three housing typologies and adaptable façades. These scales form one project: an urban structure capable of accommodating difference, and an architectural framework that gives that difference a precise construction logic.
01 / I. ENVISION
Superframe. One System, Many Ways to Live.
Superframe brings the architectural housing system and its Superblock urban framework into one mixed-use proposal. Developed for the 2017 Russian housing competition, the study connects residential buildings, active commercial ground floors, shared facilities and a walkable public realm. The question is not simply how to repeat a building, but how a repeatable system can make a diverse neighbourhood.
Material resources and individual identity inform the responsive urban block, three housing typologies and adaptable façades. These scales form one project: an urban structure capable of accommodating difference, and an architectural framework that gives that difference a precise construction logic.
01 / I. ENVISION
Superframe. One System, Many Ways to Live.
Superframe brings the architectural housing system and its Superblock urban framework into one mixed-use proposal. Developed for the 2017 Russian housing competition, the study connects residential buildings, active commercial ground floors, shared facilities and a walkable public realm. The question is not simply how to repeat a building, but how a repeatable system can make a diverse neighbourhood.
Material resources and individual identity inform the responsive urban block, three housing typologies and adaptable façades. These scales form one project: an urban structure capable of accommodating difference, and an architectural framework that gives that difference a precise construction logic.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
27 / III. ADAPT
A Neighbourhood Built from Difference.
The final urban view brings the sequence back to the city. The tower, perimeter buildings, courtyards, roof terraces and public spaces are not separate proposals; they are different expressions of one mixed-use framework. Superframe is its architectural system, and Superblock its urban composition.
The project’s central proposition is shared individuality: compatibility without enforced sameness. From the façade panel to the apartment, from the shared room to the street, a common order supports variation. The result is a housing vision in which construction logic, domestic choice and civic life can be considered together.
27 / III. ADAPT
A Neighbourhood Built from Difference.
The final urban view brings the sequence back to the city. The tower, perimeter buildings, courtyards, roof terraces and public spaces are not separate proposals; they are different expressions of one mixed-use framework. Superframe is its architectural system, and Superblock its urban composition.
The project’s central proposition is shared individuality: compatibility without enforced sameness. From the façade panel to the apartment, from the shared room to the street, a common order supports variation. The result is a housing vision in which construction logic, domestic choice and civic life can be considered together.
27 / III. ADAPT
A Neighbourhood Built from Difference.
The final urban view brings the sequence back to the city. The tower, perimeter buildings, courtyards, roof terraces and public spaces are not separate proposals; they are different expressions of one mixed-use framework. Superframe is its architectural system, and Superblock its urban composition.
The project’s central proposition is shared individuality: compatibility without enforced sameness. From the façade panel to the apartment, from the shared room to the street, a common order supports variation. The result is a housing vision in which construction logic, domestic choice and civic life can be considered together.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
06 / II. DESIGN
A Public Square with an Everyday Purpose.
The intermediate space between buildings becomes a public square, surrounded by commercial uses that give it an active edge. The transparent ground-floor plinth works collectively with the street: shopfronts, entrances and shared facilities make the perimeter more than a residential boundary.
The proposal understands mixed use through proximity. Homes overlook public life without surrendering their privacy; everyday services can sit within walking distance; and the square provides a place to meet beyond the domestic interior. The accompanying render translates the programme diagram into a recognisable urban room.
06 / II. DESIGN
A Public Square with an Everyday Purpose.
The intermediate space between buildings becomes a public square, surrounded by commercial uses that give it an active edge. The transparent ground-floor plinth works collectively with the street: shopfronts, entrances and shared facilities make the perimeter more than a residential boundary.
The proposal understands mixed use through proximity. Homes overlook public life without surrendering their privacy; everyday services can sit within walking distance; and the square provides a place to meet beyond the domestic interior. The accompanying render translates the programme diagram into a recognisable urban room.
06 / II. DESIGN
A Public Square with an Everyday Purpose.
The intermediate space between buildings becomes a public square, surrounded by commercial uses that give it an active edge. The transparent ground-floor plinth works collectively with the street: shopfronts, entrances and shared facilities make the perimeter more than a residential boundary.
The proposal understands mixed use through proximity. Homes overlook public life without surrendering their privacy; everyday services can sit within walking distance; and the square provides a place to meet beyond the domestic interior. The accompanying render translates the programme diagram into a recognisable urban room.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
07 / II. DESIGN
Courtyards: A Quieter Interior to the City.
Perimeter blocks create semi-private courtyards primarily for their residents. Where the public square is open to the city, the courtyard offers a more sheltered setting for play, planting and everyday encounters. This distinction allows community and privacy to coexist instead of forcing one spatial model onto every activity.
The landscape render shows this domestic scale within the larger framework. The school occupies a position between courtyard calm and urban accessibility, linking a protected outdoor environment with the wider neighbourhood. The block becomes a sequence of different degrees of belonging, not a simple division between public and private.
07 / II. DESIGN
Courtyards: A Quieter Interior to the City.
Perimeter blocks create semi-private courtyards primarily for their residents. Where the public square is open to the city, the courtyard offers a more sheltered setting for play, planting and everyday encounters. This distinction allows community and privacy to coexist instead of forcing one spatial model onto every activity.
The landscape render shows this domestic scale within the larger framework. The school occupies a position between courtyard calm and urban accessibility, linking a protected outdoor environment with the wider neighbourhood. The block becomes a sequence of different degrees of belonging, not a simple division between public and private.
07 / II. DESIGN
Courtyards: A Quieter Interior to the City.
Perimeter blocks create semi-private courtyards primarily for their residents. Where the public square is open to the city, the courtyard offers a more sheltered setting for play, planting and everyday encounters. This distinction allows community and privacy to coexist instead of forcing one spatial model onto every activity.
The landscape render shows this domestic scale within the larger framework. The school occupies a position between courtyard calm and urban accessibility, linking a protected outdoor environment with the wider neighbourhood. The block becomes a sequence of different degrees of belonging, not a simple division between public and private.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
09 / II. DESIGN
A Second Landscape Above.
Roof terraces extend outdoor life beyond the ground plane. Reserved for building users, they offer additional places for shared activity, cultivation and views across the neighbourhood. Their varying levels also allow the silhouette to respond to the scale of different streets and courtyards.
Shared rooms are distributed through the buildings rather than confined to a single amenity floor. The diagrams distinguish roof occupation from internal communal provision, making both part of the housing structure. Superframe adds collective opportunities without asking the private dwelling to perform every social function.
09 / II. DESIGN
A Second Landscape Above.
Roof terraces extend outdoor life beyond the ground plane. Reserved for building users, they offer additional places for shared activity, cultivation and views across the neighbourhood. Their varying levels also allow the silhouette to respond to the scale of different streets and courtyards.
Shared rooms are distributed through the buildings rather than confined to a single amenity floor. The diagrams distinguish roof occupation from internal communal provision, making both part of the housing structure. Superframe adds collective opportunities without asking the private dwelling to perform every social function.
09 / II. DESIGN
A Second Landscape Above.
Roof terraces extend outdoor life beyond the ground plane. Reserved for building users, they offer additional places for shared activity, cultivation and views across the neighbourhood. Their varying levels also allow the silhouette to respond to the scale of different streets and courtyards.
Shared rooms are distributed through the buildings rather than confined to a single amenity floor. The diagrams distinguish roof occupation from internal communal provision, making both part of the housing structure. Superframe adds collective opportunities without asking the private dwelling to perform every social function.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
11 / II. DESIGN
Central Access: A Compact Domestic Order.
The central-access model groups apartments around a shared internal core. Its floor plan tests how different unit sizes can occupy the same structural grid, while the section relates the residential floors to the ground-floor plinth and changes in building height.
The drawings are presented as complete architectural studies, with their orientation and proportions intact. Read together, plan and section explain the relation between circulation, private rooms and the external envelope. The model gives the block a repeatable interior order while leaving room for variation in household size and the profile of the building.
11 / II. DESIGN
Central Access: A Compact Domestic Order.
The central-access model groups apartments around a shared internal core. Its floor plan tests how different unit sizes can occupy the same structural grid, while the section relates the residential floors to the ground-floor plinth and changes in building height.
The drawings are presented as complete architectural studies, with their orientation and proportions intact. Read together, plan and section explain the relation between circulation, private rooms and the external envelope. The model gives the block a repeatable interior order while leaving room for variation in household size and the profile of the building.
11 / II. DESIGN
Central Access: A Compact Domestic Order.
The central-access model groups apartments around a shared internal core. Its floor plan tests how different unit sizes can occupy the same structural grid, while the section relates the residential floors to the ground-floor plinth and changes in building height.
The drawings are presented as complete architectural studies, with their orientation and proportions intact. Read together, plan and section explain the relation between circulation, private rooms and the external envelope. The model gives the block a repeatable interior order while leaving room for variation in household size and the profile of the building.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
12 / II. DESIGN
Gallery Access: Circulation as an Edge.
The gallery-access model changes the relationship between movement and the dwelling. Circulation is organised along an edge rather than around a compact internal core, producing a different interface between shared access and the apartment frontage.
The section and typical floor plan show how this arrangement remains part of the same modular family. The study is not a catalogue of unrelated buildings; it is a set of access strategies that can be combined within one neighbourhood. Choosing among them becomes an architectural response to plot geometry, orientation and the desired character of the residential edge.
12 / II. DESIGN
Gallery Access: Circulation as an Edge.
The gallery-access model changes the relationship between movement and the dwelling. Circulation is organised along an edge rather than around a compact internal core, producing a different interface between shared access and the apartment frontage.
The section and typical floor plan show how this arrangement remains part of the same modular family. The study is not a catalogue of unrelated buildings; it is a set of access strategies that can be combined within one neighbourhood. Choosing among them becomes an architectural response to plot geometry, orientation and the desired character of the residential edge.
12 / II. DESIGN
Gallery Access: Circulation as an Edge.
The gallery-access model changes the relationship between movement and the dwelling. Circulation is organised along an edge rather than around a compact internal core, producing a different interface between shared access and the apartment frontage.
The section and typical floor plan show how this arrangement remains part of the same modular family. The study is not a catalogue of unrelated buildings; it is a set of access strategies that can be combined within one neighbourhood. Choosing among them becomes an architectural response to plot geometry, orientation and the desired character of the residential edge.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
13 / II. DESIGN
Tower: Concentration without Isolation.
The tower introduces a more concentrated vertical form into the perimeter-block system. Its smaller footprint and repeated floor organisation allow height to become one of the variables within the neighbourhood, rather than a separate architectural object.
The floor plan and section explain that relationship through the building itself: apartments gather around the access core, while the lower levels connect back to the urban ground. The tower belongs to the same family as the lower buildings. Its role is to vary the composition and accommodate a different density within a connected public realm.
13 / II. DESIGN
Tower: Concentration without Isolation.
The tower introduces a more concentrated vertical form into the perimeter-block system. Its smaller footprint and repeated floor organisation allow height to become one of the variables within the neighbourhood, rather than a separate architectural object.
The floor plan and section explain that relationship through the building itself: apartments gather around the access core, while the lower levels connect back to the urban ground. The tower belongs to the same family as the lower buildings. Its role is to vary the composition and accommodate a different density within a connected public realm.
13 / II. DESIGN
Tower: Concentration without Isolation.
The tower introduces a more concentrated vertical form into the perimeter-block system. Its smaller footprint and repeated floor organisation allow height to become one of the variables within the neighbourhood, rather than a separate architectural object.
The floor plan and section explain that relationship through the building itself: apartments gather around the access core, while the lower levels connect back to the urban ground. The tower belongs to the same family as the lower buildings. Its role is to vary the composition and accommodate a different density within a connected public realm.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
15 / II. DESIGN
Adjustable Units, Recognisable Rooms.
Apartment layouts follow a predefined modular grid. The source study ranges from compact studios to larger multi-room dwellings, including duplex arrangements. Units can combine horizontally, allowing the same underlying order to accommodate different household needs.
The drawings show this adaptability through rooms, circulation and storage rather than through abstract flexibility alone. Each plan is preserved in full so its domestic logic can be read. A repeatable system is valuable only when it supports a useful home: clear relationships between living spaces, private rooms and the entrance remain central to the proposal.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
17 / II. DESIGN
Shared Activities, Not Just Shared Circulation.
The proposal returns to the Kommunalka theme through spaces for collective activity. Superframe separates the privacy of the individual dwelling from opportunities to work, grow, gather and play together. These spaces extend the domestic programme without making every apartment carry the same amenities.
The four linked axonometric drawings give this idea a spatial form. Their variations retain a common enclosure and access logic, but change the activity within it. The architectural framework makes room for different communal uses over time, while the programme gives shared space a purpose beyond movement between private doors.
17 / II. DESIGN
Shared Activities, Not Just Shared Circulation.
The proposal returns to the Kommunalka theme through spaces for collective activity. Superframe separates the privacy of the individual dwelling from opportunities to work, grow, gather and play together. These spaces extend the domestic programme without making every apartment carry the same amenities.
The four linked axonometric drawings give this idea a spatial form. Their variations retain a common enclosure and access logic, but change the activity within it. The architectural framework makes room for different communal uses over time, while the programme gives shared space a purpose beyond movement between private doors.
17 / II. DESIGN
Shared Activities, Not Just Shared Circulation.
The proposal returns to the Kommunalka theme through spaces for collective activity. Superframe separates the privacy of the individual dwelling from opportunities to work, grow, gather and play together. These spaces extend the domestic programme without making every apartment carry the same amenities.
The four linked axonometric drawings give this idea a spatial form. Their variations retain a common enclosure and access logic, but change the activity within it. The architectural framework makes room for different communal uses over time, while the programme gives shared space a purpose beyond movement between private doors.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
20 / II. DESIGN
Housing Opens onto the Street.
The pedestrian street view reconnects the apartment and communal programmes with the neighbourhood. Residential floors sit above an active lower edge, while varying façades and building heights give the route a sequence of addresses rather than a continuous anonymous wall.
The relationship is reciprocal. The street supports everyday movement and exchange; the housing provides overlooking and a more particular rhythm to its edges. The project can be read simultaneously as domestic architecture and as an urban framework.
20 / II. DESIGN
Housing Opens onto the Street.
The pedestrian street view reconnects the apartment and communal programmes with the neighbourhood. Residential floors sit above an active lower edge, while varying façades and building heights give the route a sequence of addresses rather than a continuous anonymous wall.
The relationship is reciprocal. The street supports everyday movement and exchange; the housing provides overlooking and a more particular rhythm to its edges. The project can be read simultaneously as domestic architecture and as an urban framework.
20 / II. DESIGN
Housing Opens onto the Street.
The pedestrian street view reconnects the apartment and communal programmes with the neighbourhood. Residential floors sit above an active lower edge, while varying façades and building heights give the route a sequence of addresses rather than a continuous anonymous wall.
The relationship is reciprocal. The street supports everyday movement and exchange; the housing provides overlooking and a more particular rhythm to its edges. The project can be read simultaneously as domestic architecture and as an urban framework.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
21 / III. ADAPT
Adapt: A Framework, Not a Fixed Form.
The base proposal allows different combinations of the three building typologies. The purpose is to demonstrate how one system can respond to pre-existing urban conditions, local environments and different ambitions for a neighbourhood.
The diagram gathers circulation, roof occupation, shared spaces and ground-floor programmes into a variable block. This is the transition from a single composition to a repeatable method. The common grid coordinates change without requiring every city, site or community to inherit the same form.
21 / III. ADAPT
Adapt: A Framework, Not a Fixed Form.
The base proposal allows different combinations of the three building typologies. The purpose is to demonstrate how one system can respond to pre-existing urban conditions, local environments and different ambitions for a neighbourhood.
The diagram gathers circulation, roof occupation, shared spaces and ground-floor programmes into a variable block. This is the transition from a single composition to a repeatable method. The common grid coordinates change without requiring every city, site or community to inherit the same form.
21 / III. ADAPT
Adapt: A Framework, Not a Fixed Form.
The base proposal allows different combinations of the three building typologies. The purpose is to demonstrate how one system can respond to pre-existing urban conditions, local environments and different ambitions for a neighbourhood.
The diagram gathers circulation, roof occupation, shared spaces and ground-floor programmes into a variable block. This is the transition from a single composition to a repeatable method. The common grid coordinates change without requiring every city, site or community to inherit the same form.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
22 / III. ADAPT
Construction: Repeat the Interface, Not the Outcome.
The detail studies compare concrete and timber models within the wider housing framework. They bring the presentation down to the building envelope: floor edges, wall assemblies and façade interfaces have to coordinate if variation is to remain compatible with a repeatable construction approach.
These are original design-study sections, not as-built documentation. Their importance is the link they establish between architectural choice and technical order. The project’s flexibility depends on the parts meeting coherently, rather than on a promise that any façade or plan can be substituted without consequence.
22 / III. ADAPT
Construction: Repeat the Interface, Not the Outcome.
The detail studies compare concrete and timber models within the wider housing framework. They bring the presentation down to the building envelope: floor edges, wall assemblies and façade interfaces have to coordinate if variation is to remain compatible with a repeatable construction approach.
These are original design-study sections, not as-built documentation. Their importance is the link they establish between architectural choice and technical order. The project’s flexibility depends on the parts meeting coherently, rather than on a promise that any façade or plan can be substituted without consequence.
22 / III. ADAPT
Construction: Repeat the Interface, Not the Outcome.
The detail studies compare concrete and timber models within the wider housing framework. They bring the presentation down to the building envelope: floor edges, wall assemblies and façade interfaces have to coordinate if variation is to remain compatible with a repeatable construction approach.
These are original design-study sections, not as-built documentation. Their importance is the link they establish between architectural choice and technical order. The project’s flexibility depends on the parts meeting coherently, rather than on a promise that any façade or plan can be substituted without consequence.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2
24 / III. ADAPT
A Catalogue of Timber Expressions.
The timber catalogue translates the common façade module into a range of treatments, openings and depths. Some examples are more enclosed; others give the aperture a larger presence or introduce planting and recessed edges. The differences sit within a repeated outer dimension.
The proposal’s individuality is therefore visible but not arbitrary. A shared construction framework gives the elevation continuity, while the catalogue allows the domestic edge to register different choices. The complete artwork is shown without cropping so the range can be read as a system, not as isolated decorative fragments.
24 / III. ADAPT
A Catalogue of Timber Expressions.
The timber catalogue translates the common façade module into a range of treatments, openings and depths. Some examples are more enclosed; others give the aperture a larger presence or introduce planting and recessed edges. The differences sit within a repeated outer dimension.
The proposal’s individuality is therefore visible but not arbitrary. A shared construction framework gives the elevation continuity, while the catalogue allows the domestic edge to register different choices. The complete artwork is shown without cropping so the range can be read as a system, not as isolated decorative fragments.
24 / III. ADAPT
A Catalogue of Timber Expressions.
The timber catalogue translates the common façade module into a range of treatments, openings and depths. Some examples are more enclosed; others give the aperture a larger presence or introduce planting and recessed edges. The differences sit within a repeated outer dimension.
The proposal’s individuality is therefore visible but not arbitrary. A shared construction framework gives the elevation continuity, while the catalogue allows the domestic edge to register different choices. The complete artwork is shown without cropping so the range can be read as a system, not as isolated decorative fragments.
- Project and location
- Superframe, Moscow, Russia
- Year
- 2017
- Typology
- Work / Residential / Public / Masterplanning & Urbanism
- Program
- Mixed-use · Residential, retail, office and urbanism
- Size
- 45,000 m2